On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 05:46:53AM -0400, Tyler Winter Mace wrote: > Wow, this is surprising. > > If i think back to when we moved to Subversion, i remember how always it was > to do these long urls. In CVS, there was defined a CVSROOT that handled any > pathing like hostname or local directory. We found the typing in a URL to be > error prone.
You only need to type URLs to check out. After that you can use the caret short-hand notation in the working copy, e.g. svn merge ^/trunk. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.basic.in-action.html#svn.advanced.reposurls
